Jay Benedict, an actor born in the United States of America who lived and worked primarily in the United Kingdom, passed away on April 4, 2020. His death in 2020 was due to issues related to COVID-19.
In the 1977 movie Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, he portrayed Deak, a friend of Luke Skywalker; however, Benedict's acting and the entire Tosche Station sequence were removed from the finished version of the film.